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The second Jenna Quigley turns eighteen, she’s headed to L.A. to extend the timer on her fifteen minutes of fame. Too bad her dad made her promise to graduate high school first. Silver lining? Her new school has a serious talent competition with a $25,000 cash prize, which would go a long way in L.A. Jenna’s got plenty of talent—she didn’t almost win America’s Newest Sensation for nothing. But it’ll take everything she’s got to bring down the music nerd with a stick up his butt…no matter how cute he is in those glasses.

Miles Cleveland needs to win that talent contest. When some hot girl stole his audition spot on America’s Newest Sensation, his chance to study music flounced off to New York with her. Now, not only can he win enough money to pay for his education, he can get revenge on that very same girl. He can’t start to question his plan, though…no matter how deep Jenna buries into his heart.

Falling for Forever was a great, easy to read contemporary romance with two great main characters. Despite it being the second in the Before Forever series, and Chloe and Landon do play a part in this story, it could be read as a standalone. I was just fine having not read the previous book!

I was a bit iffy with Jenna at the beginning, as she seemed a little full of herself, but this was short-lived. Her ambition, confidence, and gregariousness grew on me. Miles was also very sweet, protective of his friends, and serious about his music. They had a great dynamic from the beginning, and them together made me feel the warm and fuzzies that are necessary for a YA contemporary romance to be good. What I particularly liked is that, even though they were competing, they were respectful to each other while also not holding back from doing their very best.

There were two things I was meh about and one thing I really didn’t like at all. The first meh thing is actually pretty common in YA: the stereotypical mean girls. I know, sigh. Another meh thing was that a character comes out as gay in the book, and while everyone handled it well, I didn’t understand why that was in there other than to deal with how there were four girls and three boys in a friend group, and one of the girls needed to be paired off some other way.

But what really got to me was how mental health was talked about. One character was assumed to by a “psycho,” and it was revealed that she had once been diagnosed with depression, tried multiple medications and couldn’t find one that worked for her, so she chose not to use them. This one character was portrayed as heartless and cruel and distant. They even talked about tricking her into seeing a doctor. I’m all for supporting people to get help, but they shouldn’t be forced to do anything, especially if they aren’t harming themselves or others.

However, overall, I did enjoy the book and kept wanting to pull my phone or Kindle out to keep reading. I’m holding out hope for more books in the series so I can see how these two turn out!

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